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Dog, and the Child ; but they are soon pulled up before 
barriers of difficulty which none can surmount. Their 
repugnance to bow before the fiat, “‘ius far shalt thou go 
and no further,” is at the bottom of all their mishaps: 
the last suggestion with which we should expect to meet 
in their works would be, that such an instinct for example 
as the ‘homimg instinct’ was under the dzrect guidance 
of Him, without whose permission not even a sparrow 
falls to the;ground. So they stand confessedly baffled 
before such stories as that of the Spaniel which the 
Archduchess Marie Régnier, in 1872, removed from the 
Hotel at Mentone to Vienna, and which not long after 
reappeared at its own home, having run a distance of 
nearly 1,000 miles never traversed before, and whose 
monument at the Hotel Gardens records the wonderful 
feat and the faithful creature’s death from fatigue. 
Even when the Scientists are weighing so accurately 
the comparative intelligence of the creatures; their ex- 
amples often are not half reckoned up, even where but 
superficial consideration might have conduced to sounder 
decision ; so Romanes compares the intelligence of the 
Parrot detrimentally with that of the Dog; in his reck- 
oning he fails to observe that he is comparing a bird 
which passes its every hour between wires of a cage, not 
with a kennelled dog, but with one that is free as air to 
gain intelligence and to display it. The Grey Parrots 
are brought up from the nests in thousands; not as pets, 
but as articles of commerce. 
It is easy to see how many readers are captivated, 
and converts made to a theory, by the apparent acuteness 
of the author as he manipulates his collection of so called 
facts. 
An author takes his examples from Nature, of Frame, 
or Mind; from these he deduces his theories, and sets 
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